Best Jewelry Boxes

If you are female and grew up in the middle decades of the Twentieth Century, chances are you had a ballerina musical jewelry box, or knew someone who did. The box was white on the outside and pink inside, and when the lid was opened, the music started and the ballerina sprang up to pirouette. A small mirror inside the lid reflected the dancing figure.

Musical jewelry boxes for girls have not changes that much. The ballerina is still there, but fortunately there are other choices as well. Popular child stars have merchandised musical jewelry boxes, and there are unbranded girls musical jewelry boxes playing the standard waltzes and such. In fact, you can probably give a young lady a new musical jewelry box every year as she grows up, now, without repeating yourself. I don’t think that was the case thirty years ago.

Jewelry music boxes should be given with something in them. One of the better options is Judith Jack marcasite jewelry. Her designs are contemporary but not bizarre, and marcasite jewelry is classic in that it has been made for a long time. There is antique marcasite jewelry in antique stores and auctions, and vintage marcasite jewelry at flea markets and second hand stores. The marcasite in the jewelry is actually bits of pyrite, usually set in silver, and it looks like small black diamonds paving the piece. Once you have seen it, you will recognize it anywhere, and perhaps you will like it as much as I do.

Silver marcasite jewelry has a long history, but the techniques and materials are still being used today. Modern jewelry designer Judith Jack uses marcasites in her designs today. Add one to another classic, the musical jewelry box, to make a gift that will not be soon forgotten.

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Whether starting a personal jewelry collection or organizing an inherited collection, jewelry boxes are crucial to the organization, preservation, and storage of jewelry. There is no reason to have expensive jewelry tossed in a drawer. A good jewelry box can ensure that expensive jewelry will be put to good use for generations.

One classic style of jewelry box is the jewelry music box. Like traditional music boxes, a jewelry music box contains a simple mechanism that plays a single melody when the box is opened. The machine must be wound-up to make the sound and the box will only play music when the lid is open.

Musical jewelry boxes for children often contain a small dancing figurine ballerina, but this is not common to all jewelry music boxes. Most music boxes for jewelry are made of wood. Nearly all boxes open from the top because this simple motion is necessary to release the latch on the mechanism to play the music.

Different music boxes for jewelry play different songs. Popular songs include You Light Up My Life, My Heart Will Go On, The Sound of Music, God Bless America, I Will Always Love You, as well as various ballerina and holiday tunes. It is also important to note that the musical feature can be easily disabled. If the box is not wound, it will not play, so these boxes can easily be used solely as jewelry boxes.

A musical storage box for jewelry is a fantastic way to store jewelry in a unique way. Musical boxes for jewelry make great gifts, especially to young girls just starting their jewelry collection. There are many online jewelry box outlets that provide a great collection of musical boxes. When it comes to purchasing a jewelry box, consider making it a musical jewelry box.

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